TEST 13

A. LISTENING
PART 1: You will hear an interview with a teenager called Simon about going to an indoor climbing
centre that has a climbing wall. For each question, choose the correct answer A. B or C.
1. Simon's mum decided to take him to the climbing centre because
A. she had enjoyed going there.
B. her friend had recommended it.
C. Simon had been there with his school.
2. Before he went to the centre, Simon was
A. worried about going climbing there.
B. interested in seeing the climbing wall.
C. disappointed to hear it was all indoors.
3. Simon says that at the centre there were
A. lots of people when it opened.
B. many different types of people.
C. no other people his age.
4. What did Simon think about the climbing wall?
A. He thought it looked very high.
B. He was afraid he might fall.
C. He found the foot holes helpful.
5. Why was Simon unhappy with his first climb?
A. He was slower than everyone else.
B. He found it hurt his arms.
C. He get to the top.
6. What does Simon feel he learnt from climbing at the centre?
A. how to improve his fitness
B. to think before he does something
C. the best way to work with other

PART 2: You will hear a girl called Hannah talking about her family’s champion horse called Griffon.
For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
Griffon the Horse
The international horse show will be held in the month of (1) ....................................... just after Hannah's
birthday.
The family will travel from Poland to the horse show in (2) .......................................
The person who will ride round the ring in the international show is Hannah's (3) .......................................
Two weeks ago, Griffon won some (4) ....................................... as a prize.
Hannah's ambition is to work as a (5) .......................................
When Griffon wins a competition, he is given some (6) ....................................... by the family.

PART 3: Listen to a radio program about Kelvin Doe, a young inventor from Africa. What different
things has he made? Complete the sentences with one or two words in each space.

1. Kelvin's aim is to help his ................................................... to develop technologically.

2. Kelvin made equipment out of things he found in the ....................................................
3. Kelvin didn't have a proper workshop, so he used the floor of his ...................................................
4. Kelvin's generator meant they could have a better supply of ................................................... at home.
5. At fourteen, Kelvin created his own ................................................... station from equipment he had made
himself.
6. About ...................................................percent of people in Sierra Leone listen to the radio every day.
7. Kelvin went to America in 2012 because he did well in a(n) ...................................................
8. David Sengeh was Kelvin's................................................... on his trip to America.
9. During his visit to the MIT, Kelvin talked to the students about his different ..........................................
10. The large number of people at the TEDxTEEN conference made Kelvin feel rather ................................
 B. READING
PART 1: Read the text and the questions below. For each question, choose a correct answer A, B, C or D
Cycling in the countryside - By Chris Jones, aged 14
Have you ever been cycling? This spring my older brother and I left the busy city and spent a long weekend
cycling in the countryside. Our average speed was only around 14 kph, but that didn't matter. We hadn't come to
break any speed records, or to get fit and healthy. All we wanted was some fresh air and a break from
schoolwork. My bike only once went more than 30 kph, and that was when I raced my brother down the only hill
on our route.
We really enjoyed cycling along flat, traffic-free country paths. There was plenty of spring sunshine, but it was
quite cold, especially in the mornings. We didn't mind, though – and we soon warmed up as we rode along. Our
only problem was when my brakes started making a terrible noise. But I didn't mind as it gave us an excuse to
visit a café while a helpful bike mechanic had a look at it.
That was one of the best things about our route: every few kilometres there was a village where we could find
everything we needed. All the local people were really friendly, too. However, most places we stopped at served
chips with all the meals, which soon got fairly boring.
One night we were woken at 4 a.m. by a group of rugby fans singing loudly in the hotel corridor. We were tired
and bad-tempered when we set off the next morning and very nearly got lost, but soon felt more cheerful when
the sun came out. That’s what I like about cycling – it's simple and it's fun. If you're looking for a short break
that's active and cheap, then cycling is a great choice!
1. What is Chris Jones doing in this text?
A. describing the different places he saw while cycling
B. comparing cycling to other forms of exercise
C. suggesting places to stay on a cycling holiday
D. recommending cycling as a good type of holiday
2. What do we find out about Chris's bike?
A. It wasn't as good as his brother's.
B. It was too old to go fast.
C. It needed attention at one point.
D. It had trouble going up hills.
3. Chris was pleased because
A. he and his brother had chosen a good route.
B. he felt much healthier than before he began his trip.
C. he met other people who were keen on cycling.
D. he went away at the best time of year for cycling.
4. What did Chris dislike about his trip?
A. breaking down
B. the food
C. the weather
D. getting lost
5. What might Chris say in a postcard to a friend?
A. I'm having a great holiday, spending lots of time in friendly cafes and enjoying being by myself for once!
B. I'm having really fit cycling so fast up and down the hills in this part of the countryside.
C. I'm pleased to be away from cars and lorries for a change. Having a good time, despite some problems.
D. I'm enjoying cycling my brother this weekend, and staying at a very quiet hotel in this countryside.

PART 2: Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
Making honey
Do you like honey? Honey is a natural product, and it is made (1) .................... honey bees. It has a special sweet
flavor, (2) .................... some people prefer to ordinary sugar. Sometimes. it is even possible to (3) ....................
from the flavour what kind of flowers the bees (4) .................... before producing the honey.
Have you ever (5) .................... about how honey is produced? Beekeepers - people who look after bees - are
very important in the making of honey. They (6) .................... the bees in their care produce (7) ....................
honey than is needed.
Then the honey can be removed (8) .................... causing problems for the bees. Honey collection is an ancient
activity, (9) .................... back at least 10.000 years, and honey has (10) .................... increasingly popular
nowadays as a healthy food.
1. A. of B. from C. with D. by
 2. A. what B. who C. which D. whose
3. A. know B. take C. inform D. answer
4. A. went B. visited C. met D. passed
5. A. considered B. guessed C. wondered D. doubted
6. A. start B. cause C. let D. bring
7. A. much B. many C. most D. more
8. A. although B. without C. instead D. unless
9. A. coming B. going C. falling D. moving
10. A. become B. turned C. gone D. changed

PART 3: Read the article about two teenage entrepreneurs and choose the correct answer, A, B, C or D.
Nick d'Aloisio developed a fascination for computers when he was very young and by the age of ten, he was the
proud owner of an Apple MacBook. He loves the iMovie application, but he soon wanted to move on and create
hisown apps for iPhones. To do this, he needed to know how to use computer code. since programming wasn't taught
atschool, he worked out how to do basic computer programming himself from online videos and technology websites.
As a teenager, Nick used to spend his spare time creating apps. The turning point came when Nick was fifteen. He
was revising for his school exams at me time. While he was searching for useful material the Internet, he would
often waste a lot of tine scrolling through pages of information to find That he needed. This gave him an idea: what
if he designed an app that could summarise lengthy news stories in a few short paragraphs? People would be able to
access this summary on their phones and follow up whatever interested them most. so, in 2011 Nick created Trimit,
an app which did just that. It was an immediate success. Then, quite out of the blue, Li Ka-shinq, a Hong Kong
billionaire, decided to invest $300,000 in Nick's idea. This made it possible for Nick to develop an improved version
of Trimit, called summlv, which he launched a year later. yahoo quickly put in an offer to buy it - for a reported
f19million - and Nick became a multimillionaire overnight! one thing he found great in all this was the response he
got.
The proudest moment for me has been seeing these tweets coming through from teenagers saving, "You've inspired
me," and I'm so excited about that!' Nick says.
Nina Devani is a teenager who has also found success with an app, but this came about due to a misfortune that
happened to her father, Atul. When Atul's Facebook account was hacked into one dav, he was faced with a problem.
Since he had used the same password for another Internet account as well, he suddenly had to create a new password
for each different account. It was impossible to remember them all!
Nina's dad was trying to find a solution to this when Nina came up with the idea for a new app, one that would give
users prompts or tips to help them remember their passwords more easily. There were already apps available, but they
all involved giving your password to someone else, which wasn't ideal. An Internet entrepreneur invested a sum of
money in her app, Nina hired some developers and fairly soon afterwards, prompt Me Nina, as she called her app,
was up and running!
At fourteen, Nina had her own company and was involved in talks with US developers. Quite amazing for a young
girl who was still at school! She would even answer business emails in her lunchtime break! Nina found things tough
in the beginning, but she strongly believes that you can do whatever you set your mind on: 'Once you get going,
problems that seemed like mountains become smaller, and even disappear. What was impossible is suddenly
achievable and real.'
1. When Nick decided to make his own apps, he
A. found the code too difficult to learn.
B. paid more attention in his IT lessons.
C. found the Internet very helpful.
D. had to buy specialised equipment.
2. Nick created his app, Trimit, in order to
A. have something to do on holiday.
B. impress his teachers at school.
C. avoid studying for his exams.
D. make online articles quicker to read.
3. What was helpful in the development of Surnmly?
A. new advances in technology
B. support from other teens
C. advice from mobile phone companies
D. unexpected financial funding
4. The problem Nina's father had to deal with was
 A. fixing the problem with Facebook.
B. trying to memorise his new passwords.
C. finding enough different passwords for his accounts.
D. opening up new accounts.
5. After seeing her father's problem, Nina
A. tried to help him and others like him.
B. created new passwords for him.
C. was unsure what to do about it.
D. copied what other apps were already doing.
6. Which sentence best summarises Nina's thoughts in the last paragraph?
A. It's impossible to do everything when you are young.
B. You cant always succeed in what you do.
C. A positive attitude helps to overcome difficulties.
D. Bad times help you to grow as a person.

PART 4: Read the following text about the sport of free-diving. Use the word given in capitals at the end
of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

An e-mail fan
I think the computer is such a useful invention. Take e-mail, for
example. It's such an easy and (1) ........................way to write letters. When PAIN
I was younger, I rarely ever put pen to paper, not even to say 'thank you'
for presents sent by (2) ........................ relatives. They must have thought I THOUGHT
was so (3) ........................ Now, though, you can't keep me away from the GRATITUDE
keyboard. I can (4) ........................ spend hours typing away on my computer, CHEER
all types of messages to all types of people.

One of the worst (5) ........................ for me of writing by hand was always the ADVANTAGE
(6) ........................of knowing that people would be able to see and criticize my EMBARRASS
untidy handwriting and (7) ........................ spelling. Now, of course, thanks to the CARE
spellcheck, I can edit what I've written quickly and (8) ........................ before I EFFORT
send it off. I just can't get over how (9) ........................fast everything is. WONDER
Teenagers nowadays take all this for granted, but when I was their age. none
of this existed. Young people don't realize how (10) ........................ FORTUNE
they are.

PART 5: Seven sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which
fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence you do not need to use.

A. The girl was wearing loose fitting trousers and had pulled one of the trouser legs up as far as the knee.
B. He counted the number of separate window panes (85), worked out the most popular colour for coats (blue)
and calculated the ratio of females to males in the room (5:2).
C. There were lists of names to make, seating plans to draw and identity papers to check.
D. This brief delay gave her hope that he might turn a blind eye and forget he had seen anything.
E. She had obviously not heard him approaching.
F. They had only been writing for some 20 minutes when he received the first complaint.
G. For a brief moment they stared at each other in disbelief, neither one of them quite sure what to do next.
H. The cold was terrible and the caretaker of the building had assured him that a heating engineer was
trying to solve the problem.

He was invigilating the exam in the Casa de Cristal, a huge glass-fronted building on the edge of the city used
twice- yearly as an examination centre. It was a cold December day and the heating had broken down.
With their coats and scarves pulled tightly round them, the four hundred or so candidates struggled to forget
the temperature and focus their attention instead on the four examination papers which would take them most
of the day to complete. 1....................... However, no obvious improvement was ever made.
 The job of invigilator was not one he particularly enjoyed, but it earned him some much-needed cash before
the approaching Christmas holidays. As well as patrolling a small part of the large examination room,
answering questions and discouraging cheats, he had to carry out a number of administrative duties.
2 ....................... And then, of course, there were the question papers to hand out and answers to take in.
It was all rather dull, but it made a change from the rigours of teaching.
To relieve the boredom he set himself several simple arithmetical tasks to perform. 3 ........................This
helped to pass the time and made the whole thing more bearable. Now and again he would walk up and down
the aisles, giving out rough paper, reminding candidates to use pens rather than pencils and picking up items
which had been dropped on the floor.
He was walking back up the exam room in his soft shoes when he caught her. 4 .......................... The
candidates were now on the third paper, which tested English grammar and vocabulary, and as he neared her
desk from behind, he could hardly believe what he saw. He had heard of some ingenious methods of cheating
but nothing like this.
5 ............................ She was now looking down at the back of her exposed leg, which was covered with
several columns of phrasal verbs and their translations, copied out onto her skin in fine blue ink. Suddenly,
she felt his presence behind her and she pulled the trouser leg down to her ankle and looked round.
6 ........................... Then she blushed, acutely embarrassed but also uncomfortably aware of the possible
consequences of having been found out and she looked away to contemplate her fate.
None of the other candidates seemed to have noticed what was happening. which gave him to decide how best
to deal with the situation. 7 .......................... But this was not a course of action he had considered and as he
asked her to accompany him to the front, he noticed the tears forming in her eyes.

PART 6: Read the text. Complete each space with ONE word.
The Inferno Ski Race
The Inferno is the oldest and most celebrated of all amateur ski races. (1) ..................... is held every year, on a
Saturday in the middle of January, above (2) .................... remote village of Mürren in Switzerland. Anyone can
take part, as (3) ....................as they belong to a ski racing club and pay the race fee.
The Inferno (4) .................... strangely enough, a British invention. The story begins with a former tennis racquet
salesman called Henry Lunn, who came up (5) .................... the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s
and began taking groups of British people to the Alps for winter sports. Henry's son, Arnold, grew very fond
(6) .................... Mürren and he founded a ski club there in 1924, which he called the Kandahar. Four years
(7) ...................., seventeen of the club's members took part (8) ....................the first Inferno race, from the top of
the 2,970 metre Schilthorn mountain to Mürren below.
In those early days, they (9) .................... to climb for six hours from the railway terminus in Mürren
(10) .....................the start of the race. Today, racers can use a cable car which (11) .................... about twenty
minutes. In the first race, the winning time for the fourteen-kilometre race was one hour, twelve minutes.
(12) .................... days it tends to be almost exactly an hour less. Although the skiers are very (13) ....................
faster now, some things haven't changed. The course, (14) .................... is steep and has sharp bends, remains
(15) .................... of the most demanding and frightening in the world.

PART 7: Read the passage and look carefully at each line. If a line is correct, put a tick (). If a line has a
mistake, underline and write it in the space provided.

Congratulations
Congratulations on winning of the tennis championship! You must be
very especially since the prize is quite a lot of money.
1 What are you going to spend it on? You could even buy a new car ....................
2 with all that money! You should have be in great shape after all the ....................
3 training you have been doing. It must be so very hard work, practising ....................
4 all those hours for every day, but it is worth it in the end, isn't it? ....................
5 Perhaps you are thinking of going on holiday so that you can have ....................
6 a break from tennis and relax. Can you tell me exactly what is kind of ....................
7 tennis racquet you chose for the competition? If I would get the same, ....................
8 it might help me to improve my game. Anyway, congratulations on ....................
9 your great victory! I'm still studying English every single day and the ....................
10 course has three months to go. I have moved house, as if you can see ....................
11 from my new address. Make sure you reply back to the right address! ....................
 12 Your last letter went to my old address, but it wasn’t by your fault ....................
13 because I hadn't told anyone which I had moved then. Did you know that ....................
14 have had a job for the last three weeks? I work in a restaurant four ....................
15 evenings a week. I like it, but I don't arrive to home until one o'clock in the morning
....................
which is a big inconvenient.

PART 8: Read the following text. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a
word that fits in the gap in the same line.
A POPULAR WRITER
Emma Harte, in Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel, was a poor lonely girl who became the (1) …………..............
WEALTH owner of an international chain of stores. Like the woman she writes about, Ms Bradford is beautiful
and (2) ………….............. AMBITION
She left school at sixteen and became a (3) ………….............. JOURNAL. After twenty-three years of this
work, she made the (4) ………….............. DECIDE to start writing novels. She is now one of the most (5)
………….............. HIGH -paid novelists in the world. Was Emma Harte's story based on Ms Bradford's own (6)
………….............. INCREDIBLE successful life? 'I'm afraid not,' she said with (7) ………….............. AMUSE
My life has been quite different from Emma Harte’s. She was (8) ………….............. LUCK to be born into a
poor family. I came from a middle-class home and I'm (9) ………….............. HA PPY married to a rich
American film producer. The only thing I share with my heroine is her (10) ………….............. ABLE to work
hard.'

PART 9: Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
The lost art of old masters
The three blank spaces on the wall of the Frankfurt Schirn Gallery are probably more photographed than
the old paintings which (1) …………… there until last Thursday. That was the day when thieves (2)
…………… two paintings by JMW Turner, which were (3) …………… loan from London's Tate Gallery. In
fact, as theft increases, empty walls are (4) …………… an increasingly familiar (5) …………… in Europe's
galleries. The thieves are usually (6) ... of professional gangs who study the layout of their target in (7)
…………… beforehand. They are becoming better at overcoming the tightest security. The thieves of Frankfurt
waited (8) …………… the gallery closed at 10 pm, overpowered the security guard before he could (9)
…………… on the alarm system and (10) …………… with the paintings to a waiting car. The pictures are (11)
…………… at 237.7 million and, since they are (12) …………… famous to sell, police suspect that the thieves
will hold them to ransom. A €62,800 reward is being (13) …………… for information. Unfortunately European
Union policy has made it easier for thieves to (14) …………… borders and harder for police to follow them. To
discourage thieves, galleries may have to turn themselves (15) …………… high security fortresses.

1. A hung B stayed C held D fixed

2. A robbed B stole C burgled D borrowed
3. A for B at C in D on
4. A getting B becoming C having D growing
5. A sight B scene C site D look
6. A guests B members C partners D owners
7. A fact B addition C detail D general
8. A for B while C before D until
9. A turn B go C rely D set
10. A escaped B parted C got D hid
11. A measured B charged C valued D appreciated
12. A too B enough C very D quite
13. A stated B offered C held D taken
14. A swap B alter C change D cross
15. A for B towards C into D over
 C. WRITING:

Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1. Although his both legs were broken in the crash, he managed to get out of the car before it exploded.
 Despite .......................................................................................................
2. It isn't necessary for you to finish by Saturday
 You.................................................................................................................
3. It was such rotten meat that it had to be thrown away.
 The meat was ................................................................................................................
4. My French friend finds driving on the left difficult.
 My French friend isn’t ................................................................................................................
5. We didn’t go on holiday because we did not have enough money.
 If we.................................................................................................
6. The children couldn’t go swimming because the sea was rough.
 The sea was too..................................................................................
7. The mechanic serviced my car last week.
 I ............................................................................................
8. He couldn’t afford to buy the car.
 The car ...........................................................................................................
9. That restaurant is so dirty that no one wants to eat there.
 It is such ...........................................................................................................
10. He objected to the fact that his secretary came to work late.
 He was annoyed ...........................................................................................................

Part 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given.
1. 'Don't touch the cake, Toby, it's still hot: said Mrs Smith. not
 Mrs Smith ……………………………………………………………the cake because it was still hot.
2. Tamsin was the only student who hadn't done her homework. apart
 All the students …………………………………………………………… done their homework.
3. I expect Lucy was pleased that she'd won the prize. been
 Lucy …………………………………………………………… that she'd won the prize.
4. 'I will only work extra hours if I get paid at a higher rate.' unless
 'l will ……………………………………………………………. I get paid at a higher rate.'
5. Max offered Gaby a lift to the station, but she didn't accept. turned
 Gaby …………………………………………………………… offer of a lift to the station.
6. Valerie doesn’t object to her photograph appearing in the magazine. objection
 Valerie …………………………………………………… her photograph appearing in the magazine.
7. There is no more petrol left in the car. run
 The car ……………………………………………………………petrol.
8. 'If you ask me, you should buy a new coat, Tracy,' said her mother. advised
 Tracy's mother …………………………………………………………… a new coat.
9. People say that the famous couple are about to get married. said
 The famous couple …………………………………………………………… about to get married.
10. You can borrow my camera, but you must be careful with it. long
 You can borrow my camera …………………………………………………………… careful with it.
 Part 3: Make all necessary changes and additions to make a complete letter:
Dear Mrs Scott,
1. I / write / confirm / arrangements / concerning / new nanny Margarita.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Margarita’s plane / leave / Hamburg / 5.30 / arrive / London Gatwick 6.45, so / it / be / early start / you.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. As agreed / Margarita / work / 8-10 morning / 3-8 afternoon and evening.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. She / have / English lessons / every Saturday.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. As know / by Christmas / Margarita / complete / six month’s employment / therefore / expect / pay rise 10%.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. I / go / holiday / three weeks / Saturday / if / have problems / contact / secretary Elizabeth Hazlett.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
7. I hope / things run smoothly / you / Margarita.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Yours sincerely,